Word: joined
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Britain and Europe. I think our support for the European Economic Community has been very halfhearted. You really cannot join any group of nations and spend all your time criticizing it. The E.E.C. is free Europe getting together. Had we some vision like that after the First World War, we might never have had the Second. We couldn't get the whole of Europe, but at least we've got half of Europe free. At least my son does not have to go and fight as his father had to fight. Surely that is the most valuable thing...
South Africa last week announced a set of proposals for improving the rights of at least some of the country's 7.5 million black workers. Among the provisions: permitting most black workers to join officially recognized labor unions; encouraging employers to pay black and white employees the same wages; integrating company cafeterias and washrooms; doing away with the practice of reserving certain categories of jobs for whites only...
...three speakers will join author Theodore H. White '38 on the Class Day podium. "I'm sure he'll give a very nice follow-up to my speech," Christulides joked...
...loser, since his party, a branch of the Zimbabwe African National Union, got only 14½% of the vote. Later, it was announced that his party had won twelve parliamentary seats and would qualify for two Cabinet posts in the new government. Most observers expect him to join the Cabinet...
Last August Libya's radical leader, Colonel Muammar Gaddafi, visited Wiesbaden for treatment of liver and kidney ailments. There he got a phone call from West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, who asked that Libya join other countries which have pledged not to give refuge to West German terrorists. Gaddafi not only agreed, but said he would give additional antiterrorist aid to Bonn if needed. Bonn took him up on that offer in November, after four members of West Germany's Red Army Faction wanted for the 1977 slaying of Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer were freed by Yugoslavia...